I’m the owner of this company
What would you like to know?
Just because I’m not in YC does mean anything
I have deep home service connections and have been doing internal ai app development for the past couple years
I think it’s lame people try and downplay a company because they aren’t SF based or in a YC cohort
I made the calls and got the contracts with these home service company who will document all their jobs for me and my team
That is not to say that your idea or company are bad, but there's very little substance that would indicate that I should care.
I don't care that you trained your own deepseek derivative or that you got contracts. What you are proposing to do is interesting, but a mission to Mars is also interesting. If it's some random person proposing a mission to Mars, I don't care because they have no chance to actually achieve anything meaningful. If it's a person who has credible support and a plan, sure, now I'm listening.
Why should I care about you doing it? How are you proposing to solve the hard problems, which are in the robotics space?
But I am doing what everyone does on here and sharing what I’m up to.
I’m not trying to say I’m special or anything like that.
This just happen to resonate
And I just got this new brand rolling out which is why I have no presence
I'm not trying to diss anything you do, kudos for trying!
I generally found that the HN crowd is difficult to please and perhaps a better avenue of getting feedback (and support) is to tailor material specifically for HN.
E.g. if you had a blog post talking about what you are trying to do, the problems you encountered and interesting solutions you are looking at, you'd get a much more interesting response? We get continuously assaulted by "the next big business idea" all the time, both here and in our professional lives. It's difficult to stand out in that deluge. Talking about the technical side can be an easier way to engage people in constructive discussions.
I didn’t expect this kind of response
Will get more on the blog and pushed to socials
Sorry, but how?
In my experience, videos from professionals are not enough to train a robot, because you lack all/most of the edge and failure cases. Let me illustrate with pilots: The average Airbus can land itself via autopilot. Autopilot will fly it to the correct location. You confirm the frequencies, it connects to the airport's guidance system and lands itself. Super boring. Videos of that won't help anyone become a proper pilot. The reason pilots train for years is to handle the 1 in a 1000 case where the autopilot doesn't work. And you suddenly have to take over in the middle of a messy approach.
Translated back to your plumbers, the real training is when the robot is carrying a 100kg metal pipe and then the owner's kids come running and pass through under it. Every professional will give their best to immediately reduce efficiency by making things stationary and SAFE. That's the training data that is truly valuable.
BTW, I am considering bootstrapping a startup that uses video game engines to generate training data to make robot policies anticipate physical effects and counter-steer before they happen. Like putting down a heavy steel pipe before it drops due to gravity. With 2 bugfixes merged into the Unreal Engine, I have some experience there ;) So I might soon be in the business of selling custom training data.
Feel free to email me at hn at hajo me
Props to you for going out and making things happen but given what I know about your company from your
a) claude-coded website b) faceless twitter
most people or investors would conclude you're a bot at best, a scam at worst.
I don't say any of this with condescension (on rereading my first post, I'm sorry if the tone was harsh).
We are data only. So we have no robots. We capture the entire job and structure the data for training
Our model is to capture hard to get training data for robotics
I think you might have misread my tone?
I was just trying to clear up anything the OP was curious about
Nothing was intended to come off as harsh